Titus Welliver

Biography

Titus Welliver is an American actor, producer, and writer, born on March 12, 1962, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was raised in Philadelphia and New York and initially considered following his father, renowned landscape painter Neil Welliver, into painting before deciding to pursue acting. He moved to New York in 1980 and studied acting at HB Studio while attending New York University.

Welliver began his screen career in the early 1990s with appearances in films such as Navy SEALs, The Doors, and JFK. He subsequently built a substantial television career, appearing in series including NYPD Blue, Brooklyn South, Law & Order, and Star Trek: Voyager.

He gained wider recognition as Silas Adams in HBO's acclaimed Western drama Deadwood (2004–2006). He later played the mysterious Man in Black in Lost, Irish crime figure Jimmy O'Phelan in Sons of Anarchy, and Glenn Childs in The Good Wife.

Welliver has also appeared in films including Gone Baby Gone (2007), The Town (2010), Argo (2012), Man on a Ledge (2012), Promised Land (2012), and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). He developed a particularly strong professional relationship with filmmaker Ben Affleck, appearing in several of Affleck's films.

His defining role came in 2014 when he was cast as LAPD detective Harry Bosch in the Amazon series Bosch. Based on Michael Connelly's novels, the series ran for seven seasons from 2014 to 2021 and established Welliver as the central figure of the franchise. He reprised the role in Bosch: Legacy (2022–2025) and later in Ballard.

Beyond acting, Welliver is also an accomplished painter, having returned to landscape painting after a lengthy hiatus. His work has been exhibited in galleries in several U.S. states.

With a career spanning more than three decades, Titus Welliver is particularly recognized for his performances in Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, Deadwood, Lost, Sons of Anarchy, The Town, and Argo.